PC Gaming
I’m sorry to do this to you, but XCOM 2 came out nine years ago. The world was young, my passport said “European Union” on it, and I had a full head of hair (I still do, but I also did then). Not only did XCOM 2 come out nearly a decade ago, but it…
“Intel 18A is now ready.” So proclaims a new landing page on Intel’s website for the company’s all-important new 18A chip production node. But what does it mean for the PC? We already knew that Intel’s next laptop chip, Panther Lake, is due to be made, at least in part, on the new 18A node….
If you’ve been meaning to learn American Sign Language (ASL), or just want to brush up on your vocabulary, Nvidia has announced a free new tool, alongside the American Society for Deaf Children and agency Hello Monday, that harnesses AI to teach prospective users how to speak. Announced in the Nvidia Blog, this new tool’s…
Julian Gollop’s next game does not look like a Julian Gollop game. The man forever fated to be referred to as ‘XCOM creator Julian Gollop’ in headlines is making a game with no RNG, no turns, and no apocalyptic bleakness. Chip ‘n Clawz vs The Brainioids is as perky as its name suggests, and its…
It’s not easy surviving in the Living Lands. Everywhere I go in Avowed, I meet desperate, scared people, laid low by nature, or criminals, or political conflict. They tell me their sad stories, and I swear to help them however I can. And then I walk into their house and steal all their possessions. Fair…
As a man who has listened to one third of Mike Duncan’s History of Rome podcast and seen James Purefoy absolutely tear it up as Mark Antony in HBO’s Rome, I’m something of an expert in Roman history. So, naturally, when Alessandro Roberti’s new RPG Never Second In Rome came out in early access a…
I’ve been around this game long enough now to have sat through many immersive gaming experiences. VR headsets, racing wheels, game-synced RGB room lighting, bum-rumblers, the lot. But there’s inevitably a point where all this gear transitions from a gameplay-enhancing experience booster into something genuinely terrifying, and I think TikTok user Idaxix may have found…
If you didn’t play My Friend Pedro, you missed out. Specifically, you missed out on clearing a room full of Real Bad Dudes by ricocheting bullets off a casually thrown frying pan while leaping from a skateboard in midair slow-motion. DeadToast Entertainment, the developer of My Friend Pedro, is back with another slow-mo gunfest called…
Despite NetEase’s promise that Marvel Rivals will get a couple of new heroes every half of a season, some players still think there are too many Duelists compared to the amount of Vanguards and Strategists on offer. There’s no sign of this being solved just yet, so in the meantime, one player has decided to…
For as long as I’ve been writing about PC hardware, I’ve hoped for a processor with an integrated GPU that was genuinely good for gaming. The AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 is that chip. It’s a mobile API that’s desktop-grade in a few ways, with a Radeon 8050S bringing 32 Compute Units (CUs) of graphical…